American Masters: Season 23
Season 23 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of American Masters Season 22.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 23 Progress Shield
Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About
Feb 18, 2009 · 90 min
The work of the American dance pioneer and choreographer who brought ballet techniques to the Broadway stage.
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Apr 8, 2009 · 90 min
Scott Hicks' acclaimed 2007 film on a year in the life of the modern experimental composer.
Hollywood Chinese
May 27, 2009 · 90 min
From the first Chinese-American film produced in 1916, to Ang Lee's triumphant Brokeback Mountain nine decades later, this films brings together a group of actors, writers, directo
Neil Young: Don't Be Denied
Jun 10, 2009 · 90 min
The work of the legendary rock musician and his artistic and intellectual transitions over the decades.
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
Jul 1, 2009 · 90 min
A retrospective on the famed radio personality and author centering on A Prairie Home Companion.
Trumbo
Sep 2, 2009 · 90 min
An account of Dalton Trumbo, a powerful motion picture screenwriter who refused to succumb to the stigma of the Hollywood "blacklist" and rose to prominence once again.
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Oct 14, 2009 · 90 min
The folk music career of Joan Baez and the progressive movements she both participated in and influenced.
Louisa May Alcott: the Woman Behind 'Little Women'
Dec 28, 2009 · 90 min
The author of 'Little Women' is an almost universally recognized name whose reputation as a morally upstanding New England spinster masked a literary double life.